Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Belle Bilton; Mary Ansell NPG Ax136801

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and after Alexander Bassano

This page from an album marked 'The Property of Alexander Bassano' depicts a number of cabinet cards, showing varying poses, lined up on a wooden frame, along with the sitters' names and sitting numbers, which have then been re-photographed. The sitters in the album are society beauties, popular figures and actresses, such as Belle Bilton (Countess of Clancarty) and Mary Ansell who are pictured here. It is possible that Bassano used this album as a catalogue for the ordering of prints.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.